{"id":183244,"date":"2024-02-21T07:23:24","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T13:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/science-fiction-meets-reality-as-researchers-develop-techniques-to-overcome-obstructed-views"},"modified":"2024-02-21T07:23:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T13:23:24","slug":"science-fiction-meets-reality-as-researchers-develop-techniques-to-overcome-obstructed-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/science-fiction-meets-reality-as-researchers-develop-techniques-to-overcome-obstructed-views","title":{"rendered":"Science fiction meets reality as researchers develop techniques to overcome obstructed views"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/science-fiction-meets-reality-as-researchers-develop-techniques-to-overcome-obstructed-views2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a recent car crash, John Murray-Bruce wished he could have seen the other car coming. The crash reaffirmed the USF assistant professor of computer science and engineering\u2019s mission to create a technology that could do just that: See around obstacles and ultimately expand one\u2019s line of vision.<\/p>\n<p>Using a single photograph, Murray-Bruce and his doctoral student, Robinson Czajkowski, created an algorithm that computes highly accurate, full-color three-dimensional reconstructions of areas behind obstacles\u2014a concept that can not only help prevent car crashes but help law enforcement experts in hostage situations search-and-rescue and strategic military efforts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re turning ordinary surfaces into mirrors to reveal regions, objects, and rooms that are outside our line of vision,\u201d Murray-Bruce said. \u201cWe live in a 3D world, so obtaining a more complete 3D picture of a scenario can be critical in a number of situations and applications.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a recent car crash, John Murray-Bruce wished he could have seen the other car coming. The crash reaffirmed the USF assistant professor of computer science and engineering\u2019s mission to create a technology that could do just that: See around obstacles and ultimately expand one\u2019s line of vision. Using a single photograph, Murray-Bruce and his [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1493,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-law-enforcement","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}